Fund Raising For Travis

Hello! We are Travis’ parents, Laura and Jeff, and have set up this web page in response to family and friends who have been so loving and generous in wanting to help us on this journey. We appreciate all the love and support you give us, and your well wishes are a most valuable resource for all of us!



Travis is a beautiful, sweet boy with an adorable laugh and twinkle in his eye. After developing normally for the first year of his life, Travis stopped babbling around 12 months and became delayed in other areas of development. At 18 months, he was diagnosed with autism. Autism is a developmental disability resulting in challenges in language, communication, cognition, and social interaction. While there are many things that are still challenging and frustrating for Travis, he also gets a lot of joy out of life. He loves to climb and play outside, run around with his big sister Julia (5 yrs old), and play in his "Son-Rise" playroom with family, volunteers, and therapists. At 4 yrs old, he has progressed over the last 2 years from communicating with signs and sounds to speaking in multiple word sentences, and developing much more interaction with others.



Travis’ parents are helping Travis overcome his autism with a home-based, child-centered Son-Rise Program® in combination with biomedical interventions and other therapeutic options. The Son-Rise Program® has helped thousands of children move towards recovery, using an optimistic, loving approach that is based on the belief that all children have a limitless potential for extraordinary healing and growth. Funds raised initially were used to help Travis’ parents attend the Son-Rise Program® Start Up, a five-day group training course at the Autism Treatment Center of America™ in Sheffield, Massachusetts, in September of 2008. Additional funds were used for Laura to attend the advanced Son-Rise training programs Maximum Impact (in March 2009) and New Frontiers (November 2009), as well as to support his enrollment in other therapeutic settings such as the Bridges Program at Texas Children’s Hospital, where he received Floortime, speech, and occupational therapy for a year and a half. Current donations are being used towards continuing private therapy with his former Bridges therapists following the closing of the Bridges program in September 2010 due to budget cuts . To find out more about The Son-Rise Program® visit the website: www.autismtreatmentcenter.org/.



To send a donation for Travis, you can send a check to our address below, or click the "Donate" button on the right to donate with a credit card using PayPal. Please note that this donation will not be tax deductible since we are not a non-profit organization, as the funds raised will help one particular individual. Any amount is most appreciated and helpful, but nothing is as valuable as all your positive thoughts and prayers! We are amazed at the generous outflow of kindness that has already come our way in response to starting this journey. Everyone seems to know someone who is willing to share their story, experience, advice, or information about a new therapy, dietary intervention, educational program, etc. This support has been so very helpful by both providing us information and also letting us know that we’re not doing this alone. From the bottom of our hearts, thank you!!!



- Laura Licato and Jeff Meier



Travis Meier

4607 Rainbow Valley Ct, Missouri City, TX 77459



For more information, email: travismeier@sbcglobal.net

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

email problems

I have been trying to send out an email today to friends and family updating them on Travis' progress and directing them to this site but have been having lots of email problems - I'm very sorry if you received the message multiple times!! Seems that some got multiple copies and some didn't get it at all... gotta love technology. :)
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February update

Hello to all! We're finally settled into 2009 with a few changes in Travis' schedule. Unfortunately, he wasn't able to handle the group therapy class he was taking as well as last semester, so we had to drop out of that. But the wonderful news was that he was accepted into the full program at Bridges/TX Children's Hospital, so they will be increasing his therapy services there slowly and hopefully by the end of March he'll be "full-time" - 3 1/4 hrs per day, 4 days per week. The program will have Floortime therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. We are thrilled! Especially as our Son-Rise home program is still ramping up very slowly. After 2 months of focusing on that, I now need to turn my energy to some serious job searching...! But between Grandma, Nana, and our 2 volunteers we are getting about 6-10 hours per week in the room working with Travis, which is not bad at all. We are still recruiting new volunteers, so if you know anyone local interested in helping, please let us know. Also, if you know anyone in the medical/healthcare field who might be able to give me any advice/potential contacts for Ph.D level positions (especially part-time), please let me know. I've been doing cancer research for the last 11 yrs but am wide open to expand my skills to a new area...! Hope February is a wonderful month for everyone.
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